September 5, 2025 Episode: Health improved after coke plant closure; glass recycling and a cool tourist attraction
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Episode for December 19, 2025: Bears!
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Episode for December 12, 2025: A safe place for hellbender salamanders
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Episode for December 5, 2025: Fracking waste in landfills
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Episode for November 28, 2025: Apples, chestnuts and eggs
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Episode for November 21, 2025: Ohio River plan, trash instruments and Three Mile Island
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Episode for November 14, 2025: Expanding coal mining in Pa.
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Episode for November 7, 2025: Saving bats, hunting microplastics & "litterbugs"
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Episode for October 31, 2025: Invasive fish exchange
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Episode for October 24, 2025: Fire as a conservation tool
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Episode for October 17, 2025: Chemical pollution along the Mon
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This week on The Allegheny Front, we talk to a researcher who found that health improved for residents after the closure of a coke plant that processed coal for the steel industry. He said, "There was like a healing going on in the community as the cumulative impacts of the pollution were reduced."
We visit a glass recycling plant in Western Pennsylvania. Even though "glass is infinitely recyclable, which other systems can't necessarily tout," Pennsylvania is behind other states when it comes to glass recycling.
We also go underground for a tour of a cool tourist attraction in Potter County — the Coudersport Ice Mine, whose owners say this summer has been their best yet.
Plus, we have environmental news about a settlement to clean up plastic pollution in a tributary of the Ohio River, the restoration of funding for the federal electric vehicle charging station program and a study that says fracking hasn't been all that good for the regional economy.
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